Seems that I'm not blogging much on my vacation blog... BUT am mixing in photo stories along with vacation stories... so this blog will be about my photo addiction and I'll keep the vacation blog for blogging about vacations... DUH...

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Squirrel in snow... First snow of 2011!

Although we didn't get that much snow a week or so ago, this squirrel is covered in it! She (I think this one is female) had been searching around in the snow-covered deck to see if she could find some seed dropped by the birds... stopping to take a look at me... she posed so prettily!

If you've never seen a squirrel with this coloring before, I'm not surprised. She looks like a mix of black squirrel (common in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US) and American Red squirrel. According to Wikipedia, black squirrels are a melanistic variety of the eastern gray squirrel, individual black squirrels can exist wherever gray squirrels live. Gray mating pairs may produce black offspring, and in areas with high concentrations of black squirrels, mixed litters are common. In our area, black squirrels are VERY common as are Eastern gray squirrels and American Red squirrels. Intermingling is not surprising!

If you want to watch a slide show of squirrels trying to crack the code to my "Squirrel-proof" feeders, use the link in the News Items box at top right.

She is really gorgeous and waiting for you to take this beautiful picture! In the Netherlands, we only have red coloured squirrels. They are much smaller and thinner, of course because it's another stock.Greetings, Yvon

News items...

If you enjoy squirrel antics, you might like to view my Squirrel Proof - take 2collection of images. Changing the speed for 1 second display of each image makes it almost look like a movie as the silly squirrels tackle first one, then another, then the third (and newest) squirrel proof feeder hanging off my deck.